"Even if you’ve taken off every stitch of……" — Catherynne M. Valente
"Even if you’ve taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your true name. It’s hard to be really naked. You have to work hard at it. Just getting into a bath isn’t being naked, not really. It’s just showing skin."
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Catherynne M. Valente
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237 Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
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I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt…
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A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good…
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Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.
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If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping…
— Bill Bryson
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Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid…
— Anthony Burgess
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Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
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Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
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"None is good, save One, that is, God", as the Lord Jesus bath said. The rest are only tools in…
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.
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I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and…
— Robert Burns
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A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a…
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